BT Vision Content and Channels

Details of the channels and on-demand TV shows, movies, sport, music and kids content available with BT Vision.

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What is BT Vision?

BT Vision is a digital TV service. You get a special BT Vision+ box which will let you watch and record live digital TV channels, as well as watch a huge selection of extra TV shows, movies and sporting events on your telly over the Internet.

Getting BT Vision

BT Vision is available across the UK. If you want get BT Vision, you need to sign up or switch to BT Total Broadband if you haven’t already. (How to switch provider)

Cost: There are two choices: Subscription-free (pay for any on demand content you watch), or a package that lets you view over 5000 TV shows on-demand, as well as Catch-up TV shows from £12.50 a month. You can sign up at btvision.bt.com.

Installation: You can install the service yourself – no engineer needs to visit, and no satellite dish.

Requirements: BT Vision requires a BT Total Broadband connection and a BT Home Hub (available free with BT Total Broadband). For the video-on-demand content, you need a line speed of 2Mb or over. To check your line speed, go to www.bt.com/btbroadband

BT Vision Channels:

What channels do you get on BT Vision? The live channels you get on BT Vision are the ones that you find on Freeview (via a TV aerial) – see our Freeview channel list. Additionally, you can get ESPN and Sky Sports 1 and 2.

The rest of the content is available "on demand" – this extra content isn’t available as a TV channel, but as a library of programmes to download and watch on demand.

The rest of this page outlines what’s available on demand.

BT Vision On Demand Content:

BT Vision offers a huge collection on TV shows and films on-demand. You can get to this content either by taking out a TV viewing pack, or paying per-show / per-film.

The top question we’re asked, is "what on demand content is available on BT Vision". On this page, we take a look at what content is on offer with BT Vision:

On Demand TV Programmes

Extra ‘on-demand’ content is available for download. This isn’t like a traditional TV channel… there’s a huge store of TV shows from a range of TV content providers that you watch via BT Vision over the ‘net.

You can access TV content by category, channel, ‘TV Replay’ and ‘Premium TV’ categories. Prices on average £0.99 per episode, or for £6 a month for the TV Package. Here’s a summary of the TV shows and series on offer:

Comedy: Series include Black Books, Spaced, Red Dwarf, Big Bang Theory, Two and a half Men, IT Crowd, Free Agents, Green Wing, Father Ted, Gavin and Stacey, Absolute Power, Little Britain, Lead Balloon, Trigger Happy TV, Peep Show , South Park as well as classics like Porridge and Open All Hours. There’s also animated comedy and stand-up

High Definition: From September 2008, a number of HD films became available for download over Broadband with BT Vision, and now, a number of HD TV shows are also available. We checked in March 2010, and found 18 HD films, including District 9, The Hurt Locker, The Taking of Pelham 123, Chronicles of Riddick, Monster vs Aliens, Star Trek and Terminator Salvation

New HD film releases cost £4.99 per download, with older titles for £2.99.

Other sport available on BT Vision includes Clydesdale Bank Scottish Premier League action, as well as Live Italian Serie A, Live German Bundesliga, Dutch Eredivisie, Russian and Portuguese football, Orange French Rugby, UFC, Major League Baseball, NHL Hockey, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters touring cars, FIBA European Basketball Championships and NCAA Basketball.

You can access ESPN Replay, for Premier League, UFC, Boxing and more. There’s also a huge archive of classic sporting action available on demand, including classic football matches, boxing, cricket and rugby.

Full details of how to get Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2, ESPN Sport and BT Vision Sport can be found here: BT Vision Sport

Music content on BT Vision

The BT Vision Music service includes music videos, concerts and Music Extras. Categories include "Back to Back Videos","Legends Live", "Classic Albums" and Music from the BBC".

Music videos: Hundreds, mostly priced 29p.

Concerts: around 30 concerts priced around £1.45, including ELO, Heart, Joe Jackson, Madness, Oasis, Prince, Simply Red and The Who

The Karaoke Channel

Bollywood

BT Vision launched "Bolly and Beyond" in September 2009, offering Bollywood Movies, TV, Music, Kids and Regional content (Gujarat, Punjabi, Bengali), for lovers of music and entertainment from the Asian Subcontinent.

Adult Content on BT Vision

There is a section for Adult video-on-demand content – Vision ADULT Exposed. You need to get an Adult PIN by calling 0800 0270 148 (10am to 2am). You can also get a PIN online

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